Mortensen, Anne Katrine(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2008-09)

During the past 50 years, more and more countries have abolished the death penalty. Today,
more than half of the countries of the world have removed capital punishment from their
laws for crimes such as murder. The use ...

Jansen, Karine Aasgaard(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2005)

Abuse and Suffering
A feminist perspective on Domestic Violence, Bodies and Battered Women’s Coping Strategies in Mauritius.
“At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, ...

This is a study of Chinese local legislatures, the Local People’s Congresses (LPCs), and their accountability function within the one-party regime. The focus is to what extent, how, and why LPCs can promote political ...

NGOs are playing a crucial role in the development of developing countries. NGOs accountability is gradually emerging as a pressing issue in the development arena. The NGOs' effectiveness can be amplified by ensuring ...

This thesis analysis hunger strikes as a specific protest tactic and aims to contribute to the understanding of where, when and how hunger strikes are most likely to reach their intended goals. By using a dataset consisting ...

Moradipour, Tooraj(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2012-07-06)

In this paper, a system dynamic model is developed
to design a robust policy for heavy equipment
acquisition, to improve the performance of the
company by preventing the company from facing low
liquidity while utilizing ...

Thune, Torstein Kristoffer(Master thesis, The University of Bergen, 2013-05-31)

Information and tools on modern smartphones are
tightly tied to applications. It is
hard to move information between applications, and
it is often near impossible to
collect and compare information from several
sources. ...

This thesis describes public sector corruption in a rural setting of Kenya. It also assesses the effects of civil service wage on reported cases of corruption in the Kenyan public sector. It argues that understanding public ...

Nepalese bureaucracy is accused of being inefficient, corrupt, non-transparent and irresponsible. It is also said that Afno Manchhe and Chakari, which is deeply rooted in Nepalese social values, is also highly institutionalized ...

Civil society support in democratizing countries has become a central focus of international donors during the last two decades. Yet, our understanding of the phenomenon and the possible consequences remains incomplete. ...

The thesis deals with interstate cooperation in African regional institutions, and poses the question: What characterizes African interstate cooperation as opposed to regional cooperation in other world regions. Institutional ...

This thesis describes the many processes which happen when a natural disaster occurs. Fieldwork was done in Ben Tre province, one year after a typhoon had hit the coastal province in the Mekong Delta in Southern Vietnam. ...

Objective Western women increasingly delay having children to advance their career, and pregnancy is considered to be riskier among older women. In Norway, this development surprisingly coincides with increased sickness ...